Les Dogs are the band playing in a large marquee to celebrate the wedding of Geoffrey and Angela. During the reception, the fathers of the groom and bride exchange insults and a gun battle ensues in which many guests - and Les Dogs - are casualties though the happy couple escape. Victor, who has wandered in on the scene, is asked to take wedding photographs and has a series of dreamlike fantasies all based around his infatuation with Angela.
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On this week's Pop Screen Graham and I follow up our chat about Kate Bush's sole directorial effort The Line, The Cross and the Curve with this, her first acting role, in The Comic Strip Presents beautifully dystopic, blackly comic and Godardesque film Les Dogs.
Did Peter Richardson only cast The Blessed Kate in this so he could kiss her? We're still not sure. But at some stage during our chat about this, one of the more surreal and abstract of The Comic Strip's, we worked out what the fuck was going on. So that was nice.
The second part of Pop Screen's exploration of the screen work of Kate Bush is this fascinating oddity, an entry into the Comic Strip Presents... series which began on Channel 4 in the 1980s and still occasionally flickers back into life today. Peter Richardson, the Comic Strip's mastermind, cautions that not all of the films in the series are meant to be funny; Les Dogs is frequently very funny but it nevertheless feels like the kind of thing he was preparing viewers for when he made that remark. It is funny in an unsettling, deadpan, absurd, Buñuelian way which is some way away from what television comedy - even television comedy featuring Alexei Sayle - normally aims for. A remarkably…
kate bush, miranda richardson and tim mcinnerny were fine asf in this
